National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN ISO 535:2023. It is identical to ISO 535:2023. It supersedes BS EN ISO 535:2014, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee PAI/11, Methods of test for paper, board and pulps.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

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This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 30 April 2023.

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 6, Paper, board and pulps, Subcommittee SC 2, Test methods and quality specifications for paper and board, in collaboration with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/TC 172, Pulp, paper and board, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement).

This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition (ISO 535:2014), which has been technically revised.

The main changes are as follows:

requirements in 5.1 and 5.2 added;
Clause 6 and 6.2 revised;
preparation of test pieces added in Clause 9;
Subclauses 10.3 and 10.4 revised and requirements added;
several additional explanations added in 10.5.

Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found at www.iso.org/members.html.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 13 February 2023.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN ISO 535:2023) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 6 "Paper, board and pulps" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 172 “Pulp, paper and board” the secretariat of which is held by DIN.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by October 2023, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by October 2023.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN ISO 535:2014.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body/national committee. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

Endorsement notice

The text of ISO 535:2023 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 535:2023 without any modification.

1 Scope

This document specifies a method for determining the water absorptiveness of paper and board, including corrugated fibreboard, under standard conditions.

This document is not applicable for paper of grammage less than 50 g/m^² or embossed paper. It is not applicable for porous papers such as newsprint or papers such as blotting paper or other papers having a relatively high-water absorptiveness for which ISO 8787 is more suitable.

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Principle

5 Reagents and materials

5.1

5.2

6 Apparatus

6.1

6.2

6.3

6.4

6.5

7 Sampling

8 Conditioning

9 Preparation of test pieces

10 Procedure

10.1 General

10.2 Mounting of the test pieces

10.3 Exposure to water and blotting

10.4 Times of test

10.5 Rejection of test pieces

11 Expression of results

11.1

11.2

11.3

12 Precision

13 Test report

Bibliography

BS EN ISO 535:2023

Paper and board. Determination of water absorptiveness. Cobb method

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Published:

30 Apr 2023